Seminars
Check this page regularly for the Earth Sciences Seminar Series schedule as well as Special Seminars hosted by the Department. Microbial controls on biogeochemical carbon cycling in marine sediments
2023/2024 Earth Sciences Seminars
Seminars will be held in person at the Earth Sciences Centre, room 2093. Doors open at noon, seminars start at 12:10 PM.
** denotes a day other than a Thursday
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Talk Title |
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14 September 2023 |
12:00pm | Dr. Chris Yakymchuk | University of Waterloo |
Ancient impacts, early life, and gemstones: Insights into the Archean from southern West Greenland |
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12 October 2023 |
12:00pm |
Dr. Margarete A. Jadamec
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University at Buffalo | Implications of Slab Edge Dynamics on Arc Volcanism in the Pacific Ring of Fire |
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09 November 2023 |
12:00pm |
Dr. Cindy Looy
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University of California, Berkeley | Testing UV-B radiation as a proposed driver of the end-Permian mass extinction. |
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07 December 2023 |
12:00pm | Dr. Graham Pearson | University of Alberta | Diamonds Illuminate the Deep Earth |
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18 January 2024 |
12:00pm | Dr. Evan Hastie | Ontario Geological Survey |
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15 February 2024 |
12:00pm |
Dr. Keith Putirka |
CSU Fresno | |
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14 March 2024 |
12:00pm |
Dr. Clara Blättler |
University of Chicago | |
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11 April 2024 |
12:00PM | Dr. Crystal LaFlamme | Universite Laval |
Other Seminars
Rockfest Seminar Schedule
KEGS Seminars are held in the Seminar Room – ES2093 during the regular term
Walker Mineralogical Club meets in ES2093 monthly.
The list below is from the 2022-23 Earth Sciences Seminar Series. Thank you to the distinguished scholars who gave lectures to our Earth Sciences community.
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Talk Title |
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15 September 2022 |
12:10 PM ET |
Alberto Vitale Brovarone |
Università di Bologna |
Metamorphic methane degassing: the big unknown (and the chance to study it through an EU-funded grant) |
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22 September 2022 |
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Tim Lyons (Joubin James scholar) |
University of Riverside |
How three billion years of Earth history may help us find life on exoplanets |
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06 October 2022 |
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Rolf Kipfer (Joubin James scholar) |
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG); ETH Zurich |
The ballade of noble gases, paleoclimate, black smokers and arsenic |
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20 October 2022 |
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Haley Sapers |
York University |
Beyond the Catastrophe: meteorite impact structures, deep subsurface microbial communities, and (searching) for life on mars |
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26 October 2022** (Wednesday) |
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Jay Thomas |
Syracuse University | Truths, mirages, and shifting sands: Parting Earth’s curtains using trace elements in mineral thermobarometers to reveal crystallization conditions of felsic rocks |
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9 November 2022*** |
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Gabrielle |
Stanford University |
Responses and adaption to environmental threats in the U.S. Gulf Coast |
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24 November 2022 |
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Christopher Spencer |
Queen’s University | Composition of Continental Crust Altered by the Emergence of Land Plants |
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8 December 2022 |
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Zack Geballe |
Carnegie Institution of Washington | Temperature gradients, heat flow, and magnetic field generation in Earth’s core and lowermost mantle |
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12 January 2023 |
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Liisa Jantunen |
Centre for Atmospheric Research Experiments | Microplastics in the Canadian Artic |
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26 January 2023 |
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Noah Phillips |
Lakehead University | Zooming in to see the big picture: Case studies in using field- to nano-scale observations to better understand deformation at plate margins |
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9 February 2023 |
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Shandin Pete |
UBC Vancouver | Indigenous hydrologic forecasting: An exploration of archival ethnography and oral traditions intersecting Indigenous and modern science |
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2 March 2023 |
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Derek Briggs | Yale University | Countering biases in the fossil record: Preservation of soft-bodied organisms |
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9 March 2023 |
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Martyn Golding |
GSC Vancouver | Evaluating tectonic models for the formation of the Canadian Cordillera using multivariate statistical analysis of conodont faunas and oxygen isotope geochemistry |
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